I was gonna make a big deal about like doing a big redesign on the site for 2010, but realized I like the thing how it is. All I did was move the links for my books up a notch and add a page about the Radby book.
Brad says he’s been getting all this email asking “wtf” about whether he’s a real person or a fake person or a cartoon person, so I felt a need to clarify things.
The big news for 2010 is that I’ve found myself kinda into the NBA again. The Cavaliers are quietly playing quite well after a bumpy start, and there just seems to be lots of interesting things going on.
I get intrigued by things like Tracy McGrady having his sadness again and Gilbert Arenas being unable to shake the Curse of the Mamba.
In any case…some IM action, in lieu of actual content.
Brian: Why are you awake
Girl: Lol…sorry.
Brian: : /
Girl: : /
Brian: Have you ever had the cereal Blue Crunchos
Girl: I have noto. Is it tasty
Brian: Yeah and even crunchier than it sounds
Girl: Oh wow
Brian: Yeah
Girl: Cool well I’m glad we talked about that brian
Brian: Me too
Girl: Bye
Brian: Can I put this on my blog it is making me laugh
Also I’ve eaten two full boxes of Cold-Eeze in the past 48 hours.
Who Shot Mamba? Chapter 6 sometime tonight – keep an eye on the FB Page.
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Go over to Reese’s Facebook Page if you’re bored.
Calvin Stadiums is continually pitching himself as their new spokesperson.
I often get asked how or what to write a blog about, whether it be overall or for a particular post.
My advice is usually something like, “I dunno – just like write whatever comes into your head and then put it on the blog.”
For example:
I don’t remember what it’s called but like he is in one prison and she is in a different one and like they try to fall out of love because of their long-distance prison romance but they keep sending each other letters about how they’s going to go get ice cream together one day but like the wardens find out and it turns out the warden has bone cancer so he needs to do a spine fluid thing on both of them or something. There’s a prison doctor who tells him how to do it but I don’t remember how it ends.
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See?
That’s a post.
Would you see this movie if it starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in 1991.
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(Over at Cavs: The Blog today giving my interpretation of the movie Lebron recently signed to star in, Fantasy Basketball Camp.)
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about how I write numbers.
This started late yesterday afternoon when I signed the document to your right, and took a good look at my interpretation of “22″.
What is that all about.
I’ve always known that I can swing both ways on my twos, but at worst, I thought it was a swing that took place maybe month-by-month, if not year-by-year. Never, ever, ever have I seen myself do this in an execution of a “22″.
If you have time, I’d love to see your “22″ – can you please write a “22″ and then like scan it into your computer and make a poster of it, and put that poster for sale on Amazon. Let me know when it’s up and I’ll buy one.
Also, do you think this means I’m a bad person.
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(Blog Tour stalled yesterday a bit – I wrote a Laker preview for Heels On Hardwood, but it goes up today. I’m http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/“>also at WFNY talking Cavaliers a bit.)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about those Redbox DVD-rental vending machines, and what the inside of one looks like, and like how all the movies know how to come out, and like where they go when you put them back in, and pretty much the entire process of getting a DVD from a RedBox.
I mentioned this on Twitter – here was one thread of response.
JoannePistonFan @brianspaeth Is redbox that thing inside the grocery store?
brianspaeth @JoannePistonFan Yeah movies live inside there and you push the button to tell them to come out. Also you do that with money.
So like to solve this, I went ahead and tried to get Wolverine Begins at three different RedBoxes – all three were out of it.
The problem is, it took me a while to determine they didn’t have it. One, I just assumed part of the whole RedBox gag was that they always have everything.
Two, it never actually told me that it didn’t have Wolverine Begins – no “sold out” or anything – it just like takes it out of the menu options.
So like a stupid person, instead of waiting for maybe the next week, I just bought it for $20. This, a movie I really didn’t want to see.
Not only that, but I didn’t even go to Wal-Mart – it was at the grocery store check-out line, and if you’ve read me for any length of time, you know POP (Point Of Purchase) items are my personal money extraction drugs.
Also, this all happened like two months ago, before Wolverine Begins was out on DVD. Do you think RedBox likes it when I refer to their business as a “gag”. wtf
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Quick links of the past three days guest posts:
09/15 Chris Illuminati’s Great Moments In Christory: 9 Games For Kids Who Aren’t Yours
09/16 I Have HDD: An Analysis of Your Inspiration (This is like a serious post, so be careful.)
09/17 Jordi Scrubbings’ The Serious Tip: How to Interact With Girls on Twitter
Today I’m over at Half Broke Hotel talking about the time I saw Star Trek in IMAX, and how that time was this week.
This has been a lot of writing – lucky there’s only three and a half more months to go on this blog tour.
Other things of note, and then I promise to get back to the cutting-edge irreverence you crave on Monday.
Dylan Mooney is on Facebook. What happens when he starts to talking to Calvin Stadiums.
Phil Jackson sticking that T-mobile phone in my face is starting to freak me out for some reason. It was fine initially, but now it’s like all weird.
Thanks to all the people who claimed to be mesmerized by the second WSM? teaser:
MCM, 1889ca
Susan Cooper, Buzz Edition
Will Leitch, New York Magazine
Natalie Sitto, Need4Sheed
Jennifer Keene, Who Is Just Like A Cool Chick
JE Skeets, Yahoo! Sports
Amber Osbourne, Destructo Deviations
Henry Abbot, ESPN
Nate Jones, AOL & Jones on the NBA
Jack Kogod, KSK and Deadspin (AKA Unsilent Majority)
A lot of people asked me why these were the chosen ones, and like the answer is “because”. There are also new behind the scenes production photos on the Facebook Page, so like go there and now I will go to sleep.
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Guest-posting at Chris Illuminati’s site, revealing the top 9 games to play with toddlers.
The second Who Shot Mamba? teaser is up and running on the Facebook Page, and that’s the only place you’ll see it until next week.)
I almost wrote something kinda deep and self-analytical today, but after a night of having dreams about being accused of terrorism and not being allowed to graduate high school, I decided it can wait.
It’s a valid topic, but I want to think about it more. Plus, Bjorn from Half Broke Hotel hit me up on Facebook with this.
Last night, I really had a dream with Bill Walton in it and I asked him what it was like to work with you. He said he was never sure that you knew what you were talking about, but thinks he liked it. Then the roof of the old house we were standing on collapsed and other stuff started happening.
Can someone analyze this, and also what does it mean that I’m kinda jealous I wasn’t on the roof, also -
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(Today I’ve done my hardcore guest-posting over at Both Teams Played Hard, owned and operated by one Jared Wade, or @BothTeamPlayed on Twitter. The topic is the logo of the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers.)
You may remember some time back when I had something called Vegetable Trivia Game – it was an intricate system by which I was ranking every movie I’d ever seen, from best to worst.
Since I last touched VTG in December, this website called FlickChart launched, and they’ve developed some kind of like nerd stuff that lets the internet figure all this out for you.
It serves up two movies, you pick the one you like better, and it like pops it into some kind of online internet computer, and then like the internet puts it on your list, and after that’s finished, you can look at the list.
It’s fun and addictive and easy, although the one drawback is that it takes awhile for what you might call your “true rankings” to emerge. Here are my current rankings, and I’ll lay out a comparison of the two systems below:
Vegetable Trivia Game/FlickChart
1) Back to the Future/Die Hard
2) Die Hard/Jurassic Park
3) Fight Club/True Lies
4) The Dark Knight/Unbreakable
5) The Empire Strikes Back/Goodfellas
6) Rocky/Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7) The Matrix/Speed
8) Star Wars/The Big Lebowski
9) Superman: The Movie/Rocky
10) Terminator 2: Judgment Day/There Will Be Blood
They have ways to filter – like you can choose to just pair up your top 20/50/100 for awhile, but until like specifically “Back to the Future vs Die Hard” comes up, my real #1 won’t be there, and Goodfellas at #5 is like really weird – I don’t know if that’s even top 30 for me.
It seems like every other match-up begins with “Starship Troopers vs – ” lately.
Have you used FlickChart. Also, what’s the most scared you’ve ever been in your life, and do you wish I had been there at all -
(Don’t forget the 1st WSM? teaser-trailer is live and happening at the Facebook Page, and also like there in this sidebar, but it’s admittedly low-res.)
Trailer
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It’s been a long, hard battle, and many of you old-school readers have won – I have begun my blog tour in support of WSM?, and that means I wrote about the NBA over at The Association.
As the proprietors have told me, it’s all but abandoned, which means it’s the perfect for getting re-established mentally with this post about using Allen Iverson Empathy to pick up girls.
An excerpt:
is because
If you’ve got a blog – sports or not – and want some guest-post action, my plan is to go somewhere different every single day for the rest of the calendar year. Weekends excluded.
I’d be honored if you’d host me for a day and maybe let me plug my movie at the end of the post, and through the rest of the post, and via any Photoshop work I may include in the post.
Just let me know – right now, the schedule is booked about two weeks out, so it’s really exciting and tumultuous, because of all the basketball writing I have get to do. If you have a blog that’s not about basketball, please yell it at me.
Oh, and the first teaser for Who Shot Mamba? went up this morning right here at the Facebook Page. Check it out and let me know what you think. (Everyone can see it – Facebook member or not.)
I’m pretty excited, because I think this is the first time in the history of this movie something happened when I said it would.
LOL!!
What.
Do you think corn is a food for boys or a food for girls. Also, what other foods belong to one sex or the other.
(Also, big big precious to @dustinpearlman and @DJCoe for the work they did on this teaser. Dustin (who directed WSM?) edited it, and Dan (who scored the film) did the music.
Thanks also to @BrettEP for letting me infect The Association with my words.)
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Yo I was in chat with @kristinbrennan doing some work for our company, and this is one of the things that came out of my button-thing with the letters and numerals on it.
Brian: :/
Brian: I think I’m gonna write a privacy policy thing for my site
Brian: I always see those things and I’ve never actually clicked on one
Kristin: yeah whats that entail?
Brian: I don’t know – I want to write one based only on what I think it is
Kristin: i was gonna say thats what you should do!
Brian: I’m putting this portion of the chat into the post btw
PRIVACY POLICY:
Any given post might just be me brainstorming. Don’t ask what I mean unless I ask you to ask. Sometimes my public blog posts are just private thoughts for me, and I don’t want anyone to see them.
Like my middle name is for me. That’s an example.
Even though I’m on Twitter a lot, sometimes I’m in Atlanta, but you’d never know that, because it’s private.
Sometimes I like to be by myself, and that’s privacy, too.
If we get married, I don’t want to share a bathroom ever, and if we can only afford a place with one of those, then I’ll get a hotel room, and then like that’ll be another bathroom for us.
My email address (mike@gmail.com) is private.
What’s your privacy policy, and what do you think I meant by this post.
(First WSM? teaser is Tuesday – only on the Facebook Page, so go join it.)
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